mobile

Digital Technology. pertaining to or noting a cell phone, usually one with computing ability, or a portable, wireless computing device used while held in the hand, as in mobile tablet; mobile PDA; mobile app.

3.

utilizing motor vehicles for ready movement:

a mobile library.

4.

Military. permanently equipped with vehicles for transport.

5.

flowing freely, as a liquid.

6.

changeable or changing easily in expression, mood, purpose, etc.:

a mobile face.

7.

quickly responding to impulses, emotions, etc., as the mind.

8.

Sociology.

characterized by or permitting the mixing of social groups.

characterized by or permitting relatively free movement from one social class or level to another.

9.

of or relating to a mobile.

noun

10.

a piece of sculpture having delicately balanced units constructed of rods and sheets of metal or other material suspended in midair by wire or twine so that the individual parts can move independently, as when stirred by a breeze.

early 15c. in astronomy, "outer sphere of the universe," from mobile (adj.); the artistic sense is first recorded 1949 as a shortening of mobile sculpture (1936). Now-obsolete sense of "the common people, the rabble" (1670s) led to mob (n.).

Mobile

city in Alabama, U.S., attested c.1540 in Spanish as Mauvila, referring to an Indian group and perhaps from Choctaw (Muskogean) moeli "to paddle." Related: Mobilian.